Warning: Some readers may find the topics covered in the following article distressing. Demi Lovato has said that she nearly relapsed after her near-fatal overdose when after an article branded her "morbidly obese". Lovato was hospitalized due to a drug overdose back in July of 2018 - three months after relapsing following six years of sobriety. Take a look at Demi's stunning performance at the 2020 Grammy Awards in the video below: [[jwplayerwidget||https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/m4AvtFgO-Q0L14jDU.mp4||m4AvtFgO]] In a clip from her upcoming documentary, the 28-year-old singer recently <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elliewoodward/demi-lovato-sexually-assaulted-drug-dealer-2018-overdose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted that she had been using hard drugs</a> for weeks in the run-up to her overdose, and added: "I'm surprised I didn't OD [the night of the first relapse]. "I just went to town. That night I did drugs I'd never done before. I'd never done meth before, I tried meth. I mixed it with [ecstasy], with coke, weed, alcohol, oxycontin. That alone should have killed me." [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTiiD8L811w]] Speaking in a recent interview with <a href="https://www.papermag.com/demi-lovato-phones-home-2651147453.html?rebelltitem=32#rebelltitem32" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paper Magazine</a>, the 'Sorry Not Sorry' songstress stated that she believed an untreated eating disorder was to blame for her substance abuse problems, claiming: <blockquote>"It was right after I got out of rehab in 2018. "I saw an article somewhere that said I was morbidly obese. That's the most triggering thing that you could possibly write about somebody with an eating disorder. "That sucked. I wanted to quit [sobriety.] I wanted to use. I wanted to give up."</blockquote> [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuvHnJhcty/]] She continued: "I just realized that if I don't look at those things then they can't affect me. "So I stopped looking and I just really try not to look at anything negative. I think the positives outweigh the negatives. If they didn't I wouldn't be doing this." [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuvAEXhjr1]] These comments come a week after <a href="https://vt.co/entertainment/celebrity/demi-lovato-reveals-she-was-raped-as-a-teen-while-working-for-the-disney-channel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lovato spoke about the sexual assault she had allegedly been the victim</a> of while working for the Disney Channel as a teenager. Lovato made the revelations in her YouTube docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which premiered at SXSW on Tuesday, March 16, stating: "I lost my virginity in a rape. I called that person back a month later and tried to make it right by being in control, and all it did was just make me feel worse." [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuu3vOhEPs]] She continued: "We were hooking up but I said: 'hey, this is not going any further, I'm a virgin and I don't want to lose it this way.' "And that didn’t matter to them, they did it anyway. And I internalized it and I told myself it was my fault, because I still went in the room with him, I still hooked up with him." "The Christian, southern girl in me didn't see it that way because sex was not normalized as a child or in the south. "And, you know what? F*** it, I'm just gonna say it: my #MeToo story is me telling somebody that someone did this to me, and they never got in trouble for it. They never got taken out of the movie they were in." <h6>Featured Image Credit: PA Images</h6>

Demi Lovato says she nearly relapsed after near-fatal overdose when the press branded her 'morbidly obese'

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